Is it me, or does it not seem like there are many decent black Friday deals on any kind of internal storage whether it be a spinning hard drive or a solid-state device? My last drive purchase was a 16 TB Toshiba enterprise and they paid $225. Black Friday deals. Don’t even come close to this. Except, perhaps, if people are willing to shuck.
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The real sales happened 3-5 weeks ago. Prices are actually up since then.
There are 20 TB EXOS drives for $270 on Newegg.
I don’t know if it is a “Black Friday” deal but there are two 18TiB manufacturer refurbished options from goharddrive:
- $159.99 with 5 year reseller warranty ST18000NM003D
- $179.99 with 5 year reseller warranty ST18000NM000J
I bought the ST18000NM003D last weekend, it arrived Wednesday and it has been great so far. Let’s see how many months or years it will last~
Black friday in general is pretty lackluster lately, but keep in mind that you’re looking for deals on items that don’t really experience the seasonal variability that other consumer products do. People (generally, this sub aside lol) aren’t putting HDDs under the christmas tree.
Internals and SSDs aren’t as sexy as externals. “I have to open my computer and install it? I’ve never done that!” And unlike externals, which are a way for the manufacturers to make money off their 2nd tier stock, internals are a commodity.
Keep an eye on Cyber Monday as retailers have been saving some of their best deals for that day.
Different customer base. I get that. I’ve used a few externals over my life, but prefer an external case with bays for multiple drives instead of the single casified external.
Did you not want the 22TB WD Red Pro for $335?
That’s $100 more than what I paid for it not that long ago. Get a price tracking app. I prefer Keepa, but CamelCamelCamel (aka the camelizer) should work well also.
Yes. I use the Camel guy. Good app.
$15/TB isn’t quite the price point I was hoping for by now.
Thought that was a great deal. What’s a good price per tb?
I bought two of those on 8/30/23 for $230.63 each, or $10.48/TB. As I mentioned above, get Keepa or TheCamelizer & you’ll see the price history there. You can also setup price tracking, notifications, etc.
I still bought the two pack of 18tbs red pros from wdc. Worked out for my needs
I’m not seeing this in here yet but bhphoto 20tb elements $280
HD Sentinel is 55% off
Nope.
Most prices have been going up on SSDs & spinning rust since mid Sept.
OTOH, I scored a Muskin 2tb NVMe for $60USD shipped from Newegg.
Limited number of them (all gone now), but that was literally the only thing I saw.
I think part of it is how product pricing has changed and economy of scale. Back around 1990-2010 tech companies didn’t sell in as much volume so their margins on each unit had to be large. For example company X was making a TV for $500 and selling it for $700 but they were only selling 5,000 a year. Thus black Friday deals meant they could lower the price to $550 while still earning a profit.
As volume increased, competition forced them to low prices and focus on economy of scale. Now company X is making a TV for $500, selling it for $550, but they’re selling 20,000 of them. They’re making the same profit as they did before, but there’s less room for sales. Now the same sale for total profit would look like $512.
To the company it’s all the same. In both instances they were making 1,000,000 before the sale, and 250,000 during the sale; but to the consumer it went from around 28% off to a %6 off.
To the consumer sensibility it’s bad since it seams like nothing goes on sale, but in actuality it’s good because it’s like everything is on sale all the time; we just don’t notice. It’s also why devices with low volume are so expensive.
As a deal addict I can confirm that, generally, if you haven’t found a deal on something by Thanksgiving, it’s unlikely anything good will surface on BF or CM. Many vendors try to get the jump on BF buy starting their discounts in early November. BF is so called because it’s a big profit day for sellers, while it’s really Red Friday for buyers.
WD website had crazy deals, you had to look. got Atomos Master Caddy 4K 2TB Black for $80 msrp $800 bought two. :-)
Seagate 14TB external hard drive at Costco $149.99
https://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html
Are those as easily shucked as WD easystores?
Not in Canada :( or at least where I am which is bullshit.
Always heard about drives at Costco but of course we don’t get them.
thanks, bought one!
serverpartdeals has a few refurb deals-
https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/black-friday-cyber-monday-deals
I might have to grab one of the 18tb refurbs for $165
Unfortunately those 18TB drives were $165 for the last month or two tbh. So it’s not really a black Friday “deal”. Still a good price.
ah yeah that makes sense, serverpartseals doesn’t really do sales that I know of
I bought 3 seagate exos 16tb today, looks like quite a good deal but yours is better…